Issue #8507 has been reported by stephencelis (Stephen Celis).
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Bug #8507: Keyword splat does not convert arg to Hash
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8507
Author: stephencelis (Stephen Celis)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: syntax
Target version: current: 2.1.0
ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p195 (2013-05-14 revision 40734) [x86_64-darwin12.3.0]
Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN
A single splat is useful to convert an object to an array as it passes from one method to the next, so I expected the double-splat to do the same and convert the object to a hash.
<pre><code class="ruby">
def splat *args
p args
end
def double_splat **kwargs
p args
end
splat(*nil) # []
splat(**nil) # TypeError: no implicit conversion of nil into Hash
</code></pre>
For the sake of consistency, wouldn't it make sense to wrap the double-splatted arg with Hash() the same way a single-splatted arg is wrapped with Array()?
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